Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drankowski fenced hesitantly against Trier, losing most of her touches on Trier counter-attacks after parries of tentative straight lunges or beat attacks...
...conservative trend, however, had limits; extreme rightists ran into trouble. Thus liberal Democrat Dick Lamm hung on to his job as Colorado's Governor by defeating archconservative Ted Strickland. In New Mexico, a Democratic moderate, Bruce King, beat archconservative Joe Skeen for the governorship...
...Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, a former assistant district attorney running for Congress from the New York borough of Queens, beat Republican Alfred DelliBovi by ten percentage points. She campaigned on the issues of crime, neighborhood deterioration and help for the elderly...
Announcements of the death of the two-party system are issued regularly, of course, usually just before the two-party system reasserts itself with a certain amount of resilience. "Everything is cyclical," remarks Stanley Friedman, the Bronx County Democratic chairman in New York. "It used to be fashionable to beat the bosses. Now people are recognizing that you can get strong leadership from an organized political establishment." Still, it is clear that the powers and purposes of both parties are becoming thoroughly circumscribed. It would be lamentable if some day the nation's two great political parties were reduced...
...always be a place for the nimble, specialized "boutique" ad shops that live mainly on their creative flair. The losers in the shifting pattern are likely to be the middle-size full-service agencies that are not big enough to compete with the leaders and not agile enough to beat out the small fry. In the future, predicts Interpublic President Philip Geier Jr., "there will be a lot of large companies and a lot of small ones." And Interpublic, he believes, will stay...